Re: Replying to list (was Re: Spam Sent From WebMail)

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Bill Landry grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> 
> David Guntner wrote:
> > Bill Landry grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> > 
> > Check your settings, then.  I use Claws, and hitting "reply" goes
> > back to the mailing list just fine.
> > 
> > Although, upon inspecting the message headers, I sure don't *see* a
> > Reply-To: header in there (maybe I'm just missing it?).  So now I'm
> > not sure *why* my hitting reply goes back to the list
> > address.... :-)
> 
> There is no "Reply-To" header, so I'm not sure what Claws and other
> e-mail clients are keying the "Reply" off of - possibly the "To:"
> header, since that is why doing a "Reply All" in Thunderbird adds the
> list address to the "Cc:" field. Possibly Claws looks at the
> "Precedence: list" header, and in the absence of a "Reply-To" header,
> it resorts to the "To:" header.
> 
> However, replying to the "To:" header is certainly not the default
> behavior for many e-mail clients.  Mailman can be set to add a
> "Reply-To" header, so maybe there was some reason why the Squirrel
> Mail list admin opted not to set this???

Don't know why the list admin opted for that - he'll need to speak up
on that. :-)  At the moment, I suspect that the mail programs in
question are noticing the List-Post: header and are recognizing that
it's a mailing list, and so by default are posting to the list address
as would be normal for mailing list traffic.

                --Dave

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